Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1887-05-25

hour. The excitement making it lmposs-
ible to get at the real figures, but ii is safe
to say that the loss on buildings alone foot
up above $500,0 00.
Waco, Texas, May 21.-'Ehe following
particulars of the train robbery on the In
ternational IL Great Northern railread at
McNeil's have been learned. Twelve
mounted men did the work, and they went
at it with so much system and their plans
worked so we'll that they secured a large
amount of money from the Pacific express
company. A passenger on the train says
that when the train pulled out of Nc
Neill's station they found that the train
was in charge of the robbers, who were
well mounted and armed. The robbers
had rolled a log in front of the train, and
while the engineer and fireman were
guarded by some of the robbers, the others
proceeded to fire into the tops of the cars.
The passengers wase told If they kept
quiet they wtI33,54 not be molested. One
paSsoean 4 was shot in the hand and arm,
and u brakeman named White had his
cheek grazed by a bullet. The express
agent refused to open the express car. The
robbers broke open the door, knocked the
lISSSCiiSCI aoSI IN 1oDbGN bilG SALT tltt
amount taken is ~variously estimated at
from $4,000 to $4,000 After the rob
bers had secured the "boodle'' they made
the trainmen roll the log away, and mount
ing their horses rode off. The train was
delayed about half an hour.
PITTsBURG, May PA serious phase
of the coke strike at Everson developed
this a. m, when Il body OF 300 negroes and
Hungarians suddenly appeared in the
coke yare at the works of Col. Shoemaker.
Without any warning they made a savage
attack on the men engaged in drawing
coke from the works there. Such labor
ers as could not escape were cruelty
beaten, aud n man was so badly beaten
that his life is despaired of. The rioters
then repaired to the works of Cochran 81
Son and destroyed $4,000 worth of prop
erty.
ST.. PAUL, May. 2o.-N. P. Clarke of st.
Cloud and James J. Hill of st. Paul an
nounce the greatest sale of Shorthorn cat
tie in the northwest this year will be held
on Wednesday, May IS, at the fair
grounds, midway between st, Paul and
Minneapolis, when a. draft of ten bulls
and ffty-three cows and heifers from the
widely-celebrated herds Of "North Oaks
and "Meadow Lawn will be sold at auc-
ton. The cattle will be on exhibition at
the fair grounds several days Immediately
preceding the sale.
Cry OF MEXICO, May a1.-The city
authorities are puzzling over a most mys
FERROUS crime, thus far without any results
of a successful solution. One of the lead
ing banking firms OF this city has sus-
tanned a loss, claimed to be as great as
$780, DOC. The officers of the institution
on coming to the bank in the morning
found the doors of the vault wide open.
All the cash had been carried off with the
exception of some bags Of silver.
WASHINGTON, May 2t.-The secretary
of the navy has appointed a court of in
qniry to investigate the charges against
Captain Setfridge Of the Omha in regard
to the accident on the west coast OF Japan,
in which several natives were killed by
the explosion OF a she'll fred from the
Omaha.
MARQUETTE, Mich. May a1.-The fires
were still burning yesterday. Many de
tails lacking. Higher winds prevailed
yesterday and the fires broke out in new
localities. 1t isiestimated that the upper
peninsula is poorer by 30, 100000 on ac-
count of the fires.
INDIANAPOLIS, May 21.-The street-car
drivers struck this morning and only one
car on each line is being run. in order to |
preserve their charter from forfeiture.